Sentences with phrase «poor class climate»

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True believers in the dominant model tell us that the solution of our problems is to reduce taxes on corporations and the rich, reduce government services to the poor and middle class, improve the climate for business by reducing work place and environmental protections and minimum wage requirements, privatizing public services, and facilitating the investment of capital overseas.

Our new assembly will help your class understand the effects of climate change on people in rich countries and poor, as world leaders prepare to renew efforts to build a sustainable future at the Rio +20 summit in June.

The teachers in predominantly poor, minority schools, who are reportedly mostly black and have adopted the more teacher - centered, authoritarian style of instruction that they view as appropriate for their students, are turning off white, upper - middle - class parents who want school climates similar to their own progressive homes, where problems are discussed.

Between 2007 and 2014, Civitas points out, TEF also gave $ 4,476,000 to the Southern Environmental Law Center, a litigation factory that uses questionable climate and ecological claims to drive lawsuits against energy and other development projects, raising energy costs, killing jobs, and hammering the budgets, health and well - being of poor, minority, and working class families.

Is it just a coincidence that the climate change story (industry bad, capitalism bad, poor people suffering, all our fault) fits so well with the worldview of the middle - class lefty, the worldview that dominates in academia?

There is good reason to predict that climate change will cause devastation especially in the poor regions of the world, where population growth, poverty, the pollution of water and air, inequalities between classes and genders, AIDs epidemics and corrupt, authoritarian governments all overlap.